Tag: incarceration
The prison industrial complex is a blight on California
The state of California incarcerates its citizens at a rate of nearly 550 persons per 100,000 people in prisons, jails, immigration detention centers and...
Los Angeles faces a motion to decrease the jail population
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has just approved a two-year plan that entails closing the Men’s Central Jail. The goal of this...
UCR doctoral fellow speaks on struggles of incarcerated black women
Recent statistics show that more than one half of women incarcerated in both state and federal prison now identify themselves as mothers. According to...
UCR researcher discovers black women plagued by employment disadvantages post-prison
UC Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Susila Gurusami, found that black women face more challenges than any other category of people in Los Angeles when trying...
Death through justice or death to our pocketbooks?
It was July 20, 2012: the opening night of the world-renowned film “The Dark Knight Rises.” An event that should have been a fun-filled...
Lowering capacity of overcrowded state prisons and fitting the punishment to...
California has the most overcrowded prisons in the entire country. These prisons are so beyond capacity the Supreme Court deemed the state in violation...